- Date Of Birth: November 11, 1937
- Date Of Death: October 17, 2015
- State: Colorado
Dennis Bernard Henry affectionately known as “Buzz”, since his big brother couldn’t say brother, was born on November 11, 1937 to Daniel Boon and Hazel Evelyn “Tillie” Henry in Scottsbluff Nebraska. Buzz was the little brother to Don and the big brother to Jim and Peg. Throughout his childhood his hardworking parents followed work though Nebraska living in Scottsbluff and Stapleton and then on to Blythe, California before returning to settle in Cozad Nebraska in 1947. Two weeks before his 18th birthday he left school to enlist in the Marines. He was stationed in Southern California where he became a jet mechanic. After his enlistment was up, he returned to Nebraska to work at the Lexington Mill and Elevator. There the shy young man finally got up the courage to ask out Karen Mitchell and four months later on April 26, 1959 she became his wife. Shortly thereafter they began a 34 1/2 year career in the Hotel/Motel “hospitality industry” in Holdrege Nebraska at the Tower Motel and then onto McCook to the Chief. In October 1964 their daughter Kim was born and 6 1/2 years later in May 1971 their son Cody was born. After working for two families and three different motels they scraped together enough to be able to move to Lamar, Colorado and purchase the Blue Spruce Motel. To those who stopped in regularly it was affectionately known as the BS motel befitting of the hospitality… the place was no BS about cleanliness and all BS while keeping it on the social front. Leaving Nebraska, parents and family behind was not easy but often resulted in Thanksgiving get togethers and great memories were made with the family pheasant hunting. Through out the years the family shared common roots even though they transplanted across the fruited plains and into Texas and even had a couple of family nuts end up in the mountains. While taking care of hundreds of customers the family grew up and eventually Kim married Doug Eckert and they added a Joshua and a Jordan.
